Bogarus Rises! Dominions 3.14 Now Available!

Edi · #1 March 17th, 2008, 10:04 AM

It does. See the Vyedun and Vyedma units. Their descriptions reference the Vanir.

Endoperez · #2 March 17th, 2008, 11:16 AM

Nice! I hadn't noticed them at all. Are they available anywhere ATM, like magic sites or special poptype? I don't remember seeing them in the Bogarus recruitment queue.

Edi · #3 March 17th, 2008, 11:22 AM

Not available. They're Vanarus units.

Kuritza · #4 March 17th, 2008, 11:50 AM

AFAIK, Simargl was a fire God, who sometimes turned into a winged dog. 'Druzhina' is a word for a Prince's elite host of warriors and bodyguards, it was not exclusive to Vladimir.

All Princes (Knyaz') had their Druzhinas.

Kristoffer O · #5 March 17th, 2008, 03:15 PM

Bogarus is an anachronism, but so are many other nations. It is composed of national romantic folklore, kievian armies, combined with a touch of later tsar age russia and orthodox (and sectarian) christianity.

It could probably be split, but since there are just three eras in dom3 (this has started to become a gripe for me

) i felt that all these parts had to go into LA Bogarus. I would not mind playing a mod in the lines mentioned above.

The folklore part will be more nature oriented in an earlier era, when the land was held by conquering vanir.

Zeldor · #6 March 17th, 2008, 05:01 PM

druzhinas existed before 10th century too, so no problem with that.

Wrana · #7 March 18th, 2008, 11:22 AM

To Kristoffer:

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It is composed of national romantic folklore, kievian armies, combined with a touch of later tsar age russia and orthodox (and sectarian) christianity.

It could probably be split, but since there are just three eras in dom3 (this has started to become a gripe for me ) i felt that all these parts had to go into LA Bogarus. I would not mind playing a mod in the lines mentioned above.

Thank you! Being somewhat of a fan of 16th century, I may be just a little touchy with this interesting age being mixed with earlier times... And while we were students, one of my friends made a model of Ivan Grozny monarchy in his fantasy world. It was much fun

And sectants are, from my own point of view, surely due to be given their own faction.. Maybe Cossack-based: as you may know, some Cossacks actually were sectants and some even migrated to Turkish empire in 18th century - only to escape to have to serve Tsaritsa and her "heretical" church!

Zeldor · #8 March 18th, 2008, 11:58 AM

It would be interesting to see Polish husars if we allow later units

The ultimate cavalry.

Zeldor · #9 March 18th, 2008, 11:58 AM

It would be interesting to see Polish husars if we allow later units

The ultimate cavalry with fear aura.

Wrana · #10 March 18th, 2008, 11:12 AM

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'Druzhina' is a word for a Prince's elite host of warriors and bodyguards, it was not exclusive to Vladimir. All Princes (Knyaz') had their Druzhinas.

Certainly! Unless much later, than "serving Knyaz" appeared at Moscow court, of course... (but this is MUCH later).
But as you must remember, bylinas mostly include a very certain Prince (if you wish) as a character. Or do you remember ones mentioning others?
As for Simargl - there are really few sources. IIRC, it's of Persian origin and some ideas on its functions in Slavic/Rus mythology may be taken from Iranic sources... It's image was certainly often used as one of a guardian, that's for sure!

To Zeldor:
There was no problem with it existing before - just with it not existing later !